A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Rose, Susan Penelope

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4121058A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Rose, Susan Penelope

ROSE, SUSAN PENELOPE,

An English portrait-painter, was born in 1652. She was the daughter of Gibson the dwarf, and painted in water-colours with great freedom. The ambassador from Morocco sat to her and to Sir Godfrey Kneller at the same time. She also painted Bishop Burnet in his robes, as Chancellor of the Garter. She died in 1700, aged forty-eight.